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3:45 PM ET, January 9, 2009

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Microsoft TechNet:
Welcome to the Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview Program  — Test Windows 7 Beta in your lab environment  — Stay informed on updates and resources  —  Windows 7 is...  the next release of the Windows client operating system, built on the secure foundation of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Windows 7 public beta is available now  —  As Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised at CES 2009 during his preshow keynote, the Windows 7 beta is now available to the public for download.  It is only available to the first 2.5 million people who download it, so make sure to get your hands on it as soon as you can!
Michael Calore / Epicenter:
Windows 7 Public Beta Will Be Available at 12 Noon PST  —  [Update!  The Microsoft Partner Program website has the official time: “Partners with a MSDN or TechNet subscription can download Windows 7 Beta now.  All other partners can download Windows 7 Beta starting January 9, 2009 at 12:00 P.M. Pacific Time.”
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Web site problems as Windows 7 beta hits
Discussion: Channel 10 and TG Daily
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
How to get the Win 7 public Beta bits
Discussion: Hardware 2.0, Neowin.net and WinBeta
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Dell Adamo hands-on!  (Update: now with video!)  —  Looks like our puppy-dog eyes have served us well yet again — we just got to spend some time with Dell's ultra-hot Adamo.  It's really small, less than an inch thick, we'd say — and although we didn't measure, we'd say that 13-inch screen rumor was spot on.
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Erica Ogg / Crave: The gadget blog:
Dell officially unveils Adamo, Mini 10  —  A model shows off Dell's new luxury notebook called Adamo.  —  (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET Networks)  —  LAS VEGAS—Dell trotted out a fashion model to show off the newest addition to its notebook lineup, but beyond explaining the name of Adamo, gave no further details.
Scott Gilbertson / Epicenter:
Chrome 2.0 Preview Means Mac, Linux Versions Coming Soon  —  Google has rolled out an alpha preview of the next major revision for its Chrome web browser.  Those undaunted by the current alpha status of 2.0 can get an early taste of what's to come in Chrome.
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Jonathan Skillings / Webware.com:
Google tunes up Chrome development
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Hands on: Google leaps forward with Chrome 2.0 dev. preview
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Nears End of CEO Search  —  Yahoo Inc. is in the final stretch of its search for a chief executive officer, and a decision could come as soon as next week, said people close to the Internet company.  —  Among candidates still under consideration is Carol Bartz, the former chief executive officer …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Is Yahoo CEO Candidate Carol Bartz Any Good? (YHOO)
Discussion: p2pnet
Amazon Web Services Blog:
Manage Amazon EC2 With New Web-Based AWS Management Console  —  Today we're announcing the availability of the Web-based AWS Management Console, which in this first release provides management of your Amazon EC2 environment via a point-and-click interface.  A number of management tools already exist …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google's New Favicon (Again)  —  Google changed their favicon once more (the last change happened in May 2008).  Above you can see the recent history of this icon showing in the address bar and elsewhere.  The new design consists of four color areas - blue, red, green and yellow - overlaid by a lowercase white “g”.
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
For BlackBerry, Obama's Devotion Is Priceless  —  This week, Michael Phelps signed a deal worth more than $1 million to advertise Mazda in China.  Jerry Seinfeld earned a reported $10 million to appear in Microsoft's recent television campaign.  —  But the person who may be the biggest celebrity pitchman …
Clint Ecker / Ars Technica:
The pre's got Mojo: a developer speaks about Palm's new SDK  —  Thursday Palm announced its next-generation foray into mobile computing with a one-two hardware/software punch at CES 2009.  The company talked about its new mobile phone platform called pr that combines impressive hardware …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Ajaxian and New York Times
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Microsoft's quest to beat Google  —  The consumer electronics and technology world is used to starting the year with a landmark presentation from one of the industry's leading figures.  —  That role has traditionally fallen to Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, whose annual appearances …
Associated Press:
Verizon Wireless completes $5.9B Alltel buyout  —  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Verizon Wireless said Friday it has completed its $5.9 billion purchase of Little Rock, Ark.-based Alltel Corp., making Verizon the nation's largest mobile phone company.  —  Verizon said Friday it will also take on $22.2 billion in Alltel debt.
Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog and Gearlog
Brian James Kirk / MobileBurn.com:
Palm Pre to be released in the U.K.  —  News by Brian James Kirk on Friday January 09, 2009.  —  Pocket-lint is reporting that Palm is preparing the Palm Pre, the companies new multi-touch smartphone unveiled yesterday, for release in the UK.  “The pre will indeed be available in H2 …
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Ed Sutherland / Cult of Mac:
Apple Ditching MacWorld in Favor of CES?  —  Apple is ditching MacWorld to instead exhibit at CES next year instead, according to one source.  —  The source, citing “friends who work at Apple,” insisted the company is ditching MacWorld because it will “go large” at CES, which typically runs concurrently with MacWorld in early January.
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Goldman Sachs: IT-spending growth to halt  —  Investment bank Goldman Sachs just released its “Americas: 2009 Software Outlook” report, and it promises near-term pain for an already struggling technology industry: … (Credit: Goldman Sachs)  —  In other words, things are going to get worse before they get better.
Discussion: OStatic blogs
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Delaying DTV Could Mean Longer Wait for LTE  —  President-elect Barack Obama is asking Congress to delay the transition that will force the nation's TV broadcasts to switch from analog to digital signals.  Depending on how long the delay is, it could affect the deployment of several services destined …
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Fatal police shooting posted on YouTube  —  The footage is shaky and low quality, with chaotic shouts and protests from onlookers at a subway station in San Francisco's east bay.  But it clearly shows three policeman roughly handling a group of young men - including one who is pinned to the ground by two officers and shot in the back.
Discussion: Times of London and Mercury News
The Ask.com Blog:
Semantic Search Technology Advances from Ask.com  —  For millions of everyday queries, there is one, simple, direct answer the user is seeking, but the current generation of search relegates consumers to sifting through links and then searching through the Websites themselves to find the answer.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
CES: A Chat With Cisco CEO John Chambers  —  Cisco (CSCO) CEO John Chambers just might be one the most careful executives in the Valley in the way he talks to the press; in a brief chat with Tech Trader Daily at a media reception last night, he didn't give away much about his views on the state of the economy or the current quarter.
John Cook / TechFlash:
Business wiki AboutUs lands $2.5 million from Voyager Capital  —  Portland-based AboutUs, which today is announcing a $2.5 million venture round from Voyager Capital, has something going for it that many Internet startups can only dream of.  Last year, the 3-year-old business wiki turned a profit …
Discussion: VentureBeat
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
YouTube Is Changing How We Think About Video  —  from the it's-not-just-for-presenting-a- story dept  —  Whenever we talk about changes impacting the movie industry or the television industry, there's always someone who chimes in with claims about “how will we be able to make $200 million movies any more?”
Al Baker / New York Times:
Police Study Way to Jam Cellphones in an Attack  —  New York police officials are studying the feasibility of disrupting cellphone communications between terrorists during any attack, after revelations that gunmen in Mumbai received electronic transmissions during their killing spree in November.
Discussion: The Register and Phone Scoop
 
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Dell follows Apple with LED flat panel monitors of its own
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
The UK government's plans to retain email data and rate online content …
Dianne See Morrison / paidContent.org:
Is The Rising Popularity Of The iPod Touch Cutting Into iPhone Sales?
Discussion: Business Week
Jack Davis / Docu-Drama:
Could it be? Survey says executive salary cutbacks are climbing
Erica Sadun / Ars Technica:
Linux-based HP Mini Mi ships with command line disabled
Discussion: digg.com
Daily Mail:
What credit crunch? Apple launch £1.6m diamond-encrusted iPhone
Discussion: IntoMobile and mobilesyrup.com
Mark Ward / BBC:
Do-it-yourself 3D movies at home
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Zach Spear / AppleInsider:
Apple files patent for camera hidden behind display
Discussion: Digital Daily and digg.com
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
AMD's Phenom II could mark company turnaround
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Coby's sub-$200 netbooks handled at CES
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How China's ‘50 Cent Army’ Could Wreck Web 2.0
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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